| Gauthier Marquesan chief 1919 (ca) Postcard 140 x 94 mm Oceania-Ethnographica Courtesy of www.oceania-ethnographica.com (#3036) LL/14410 Published by Braun et Cie, Paris. The subject is heavily tattooed and wears a head ornament of clam and turtle shell, paekaha. He is holding a club, U'u.
cf Blackburn, Tattoos from paradise: traditional Polynesian patterns. Schiffer, 1999, p 141.
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